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[18:58] American Omnipresence - Day Two
We're coming to terms with just how much driving we're going to be doing over the next few weeks today. We're only two days in and we've already covered 920 miles, and we're not done for the day yet either!
We started out earlyish, 0806 when the cleaning staff at the Battle Mountain Comfort Inn burst in on our slumbering bodies - a handy wakeup call - and I feasted on the malted cornflakes and filled up the waterbottle with ice before we headed out into the desert. We've covered three states today, leaving Nevada this afternoon after an (awful) lunchstop at the 93 Casino in Jackpot (it's my fault it was awful, choosing something for lunch called "Munchy Madness" was not a great idea), meandering through Idaho before hitting Wyoming late tis afternoon. Once again I've been struck by how much the landscape changes from state to state. We started out in a boiling hot desert this morning, transitioning into scrubby desert until the Idaho border. Idaho was non-stop lush ranch/farm-land (apparently a ranch has livestock, farm has vegetable matter only) and Wyoming has been stunningly picturesque hills, canyons and rivers with some amazing wildflower (possibly pronounced "weed") displays. We keep stopping for photo-ops (who can resist a giant potato?) so we're running horrendously late and we didn't take the timezone change into account so while we're thinking it's 1700, it's actually 1800.
[Posted at: 18:58 28/06/2008]
UPDATE:
Well, we made it to Jackson Hole and managed to score what appears to be the last hotel room in the city. We got in around 2130 and stopped at the Gable Inn for directions and were informed that there was nowhere else to stay so we took the last room. We have every night from here on booked in at a campsite but this was our last night of flexibility and as it was so late we decided to hang out in a hotel while we still had the opportunity to take advantage of electricity and internet access! We headed out for dinner and ended up at the Silver Dollar Bar of the Wort Hotel. Dinner was amazingly good (I had a sort of pita sandwich ith Elk-meat) and was accompanied by a live band. We went for a wee wander around town and this place looks really nice. Additionally the locals appear to be a lot friendlier and we had a great time in general. Thankfully we have only five hours of driving to do tomorrow and we're going to go and visit Old Faithful in Yellowstone on the way through to Waipiti.
[Updated at: 01:00 28/06/2008]